Join us today at the San Diego Convention Center! San Diego Americans for Safe Access will be participating in the Medical Marijuana Education Expo at the San Diego Convention Center today, March 27th. Members of ASA will be speaking at 2pm however the convention is an all day event. Stop by and say hello to San Diego ASA! Meet and Greet with the Activist...

Today we received confirmation that California’s Finest is Open for their members/patients, and was not raided by the NTF/DEA. There was a family emergency that occurred and forced the facility to close temporarily. While the location was closed, the lock was picked and someone broke into the front area of the collective, therefore the doors to the reception...

On Wednesday March 24, 2010 at 2pm the San Diego City Committee on Land Use and Housing will take up the report from the San Diego Medical Marijuana Task Force (MMTF) as an Action Item. The committee will be discussing the MMTF Zoning Recommendations and will consider the input of the Community Planning Groups in deciding on what to recommend to the San Diego...

On Wednesday March 24, 2010 at 2pm the San Diego City Committee on Land Use and Housing will take up the report from the San Diego Medical Marijuana Task Force (MMTF) as an Action Item. The committee will be discussing the MMTF Zoning Recommendations and will consider the input of the Community Planning Groups in deciding on what to recommend to the San Diego...

Joseph Nunes sentencing has been postponed to April 19th at 9:30 am. Mr. Nunes is a victim of the continued eradication efforts of the San Diego District Attorney and the DEA. He has been charged in Federal court and forced to agree to a plea bargain to avoid years of incarceration for something that is legal under state law. He is one of the founding members of...

The San Diego Medical Marijuana Task Force meets again this Friday 9am -11am 202 C St. San Diego A 92101 (map) City Council Committee Room, 12th floor of the City Administration Building. The task force is working on recommendations to the San Diego City Council with regards to medical marijuana regulations and zoning ordinances. This Friday it is critical that...

Greg Moran, San Diego Union Tribune Tuesday, March 16, 2010 James Stacy, the Vista medical marijuana dispensary owner facing federal drug charges, has lost an intriguing bid to have the charges against him thrown out. Stacy had argued that President Obama, when he was Candidate Obama, had basically said he wouldn’t prosecute medical marijuana providers who...

Court Support – THURSDAY 3/18/2010 – 10:00am People V. Davidovich Trial Day 8 – Department 55 – 220 W Broadway San Diego CA 92101 Thursday, March 18, 2010 I will resume the stand and continue my testimony in front of a jury of twelve peers. Tuesday March, 15th, I spent all day on the stand being cross examined by Theresa Pham the prosecutor in my...

Today we have received confirmation that California’s Finest Meds Collective located at 1133 Broadway in San Diego was in fact closed down. According to eyewitness testimony, several unmarked vehicles pulled up to the collective yesterday, March 16, 2010 and proceeded to confiscate paperwork, medicine, as well as a number of other items inside the...

by The Medicine Hunter If the idea of having a marijuana deficiency sounds laughable to you, a growing body of science points at exactly such a possibility. Scientists have known that the active psychoactive compound in marijuana is THC, which is short for tetrahydrocannabinol. In August 1990, researchers reported in the journal Nature the discovery of receptors...

Court Support Requested – THURSDAY 3/11/2010 – 10am Department 55 – 220 W Broadway San Diego CA 92101 Today, Wednesday March 10, 2010 all in limine motions were completed and a jury was selected in the medical marijuana trial of People v Davidovich. On Thursday opening statement will begin from both the prosecution and the defense. This will be the...

Mar 8, 2010

By: Eugene Davidovich On March 9, 2010 at 9am in Department 55 at the San Diego Superior Courthouse, day 2 of my trial will begin. District attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ office has filed a mountain of motions in limine with the court, all of which will be heard on the 9th in front of Judge So. Motions in limine are requests made by both sides to the Judge before...

Dan Murphy of San Diego speaks out about San Diego DA Bonnie Dumanis and her war against medical marijuana. A patients shares his...

Restrictive provisions amount to de facto ban on otherwise legal dispensaries Los Angeles, CA — The country’s largest medical marijuana advocacy organization, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles today, claiming that certain provisions in a recently adopted regulatory ordinance would shut down virtually all...

Feb 26, 2010

This morning Jovan Jackson again went to San Diego Superior court for a preliminary hearing on the second medical marijuana trial related to the Operation Green Rx Raids orchestrated by Bonnie Dumanis in cooperation with DEA through the Integrated Narcotics Task Force. San Diego ASA membership turned out in numbers to support Mr. Jackson today filing more than...